NATs necessary for IPv6, says IETF chair We posed a few questions to Russ Housley, chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force, about why the standards body is developing network address translations for IPv6 when IPv6 was supposed to eliminate the need for ...

Study shows glacial pace of IPv6 adoption A study this week has revealed just how slow is the rate of adoption for IPv6, the next version of the Internet's main communications protocol, and some experts say black markets where companies trade unused IP ...

WEIS 2008: IPv6 illustrates resistance to new technologies In my previous column, I started reviewing an interesting paper by Hillary Elmore, L. Jean Camp and Brandon Stephens entitled "Diffusion and Adoption of IPv6 in the ARIN Region" that they presented at the 2008 Workshop ...

WEIS 2008: Transition to IPv6 is complex Elmore, Camp and Stephens make the point that the adoption of IPv6 addressing has been surprisingly slow. They ask why. The authors provide a thoughtful analysis of available data sets and conclude that, at current ...

UPCOMING CHAT:

LIVE CHAT: Wireless LAN management
Wireless industry guru Craig Mathias will be available to answer your questions on user interfaces, flexibility, ease-of-use, RF spectrum management, and the eventual unification of wired and wireless management in a live chat on Friday, Sept. 26 from 2 p.m - 3 p.m. EST..